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Category Archives: Taxation
Lawrence Solomon: Fix Your City – KPMG cuts are merely cautious
(July 29, 2011) The potential cuts that KPMG laid out are just what you’d expect from a consulting group inspired by accountants: cautious and uninspired. Continue reading
Posted in Budgets
Tagged BIA, budget, budget cuts, Business Improvement Area, deregulation, fix your city, KPMG, Lawrence Solomon, Mayor Ford, municipal financing, privatization, retail, toronto
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The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, Political reforms, Taxation, Utilities
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, renewable energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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Novel cure
Tom Flanagan’s cure for what ails Indian reserves is novel, especially for a conservative.
It’s not more federal or provincial money, or fewer controls over existing transfers. Indians don’t need enhanced cultural identity or greater control over natural resources, health care, education, child welfare, policing or criminal justice.
If Indians want self-government, they must be prepared to be taxed.
Posted in Taxation
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Ontario must rescue Toronto from itself
(October 20, 2006) Montreal was once Canada’s great financial centre. Then politics made Montreal unwelcoming to business and, over time, Toronto took over. Now Toronto has become hostile to business and companies are relocating outside the city and to more business-friendly Calgary. If Toronto remains hostile, Calgary will continue to outpace Toronto and could replace Toronto as the country’s business and financial capital. Continue reading
Posted in City states, Regulation, Taxation
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